Sentence examples for wicked eye from inspiring English sources

The Maya had a wicked eye for caricature, and the high and mighty were fair game.

He also undercuts the obvious accusation of literary solipsism with sly humour, self-mockery and a wicked eye for pomposity.

There are shades of Adrian Mole in Wu's wicked eye for detail and straight-faced narration of the absurd obsessions and self-indulgences of adolescence.

Coogan has a wicked eye for overwheening vanity and sexual dysfuction (even though he was himself caught out as a 'love rat' by the tabloids).

Neihart's two previous novels about gay men on the town revealed a writer with a wicked eye and a syncopated, frequently electrifying style.

David Lindsay-Abaire, the gifted young author of "Fuddy Meers," hasn't lost his playfully wicked eye for the United States as a consumerist version of Alice's Wonderland in which everything swells and shrinks out of proportion.

With its wicked eyes and gaping mouth it's absolutely hypnotic, and on the attack.

His wicked eyes, even then, would fill with horror as he thrashed in his bed.

Gladstone is greeted by a willowy young woman who asks him what his "wicked blue eyes are thinking about".

" 'Wicked' opened our eyes to the possibility of what can happen when you have a show that becomes a perennial," said Mr. Horowitz, whose studio initially planned to make the 1995 novel "Wicked" into a film instead — and now expects to make a movie of the musical someday, expanding the franchise.

Ms. Young smiled, with a wicked twinkle in her eye.